The author wants to highlight how occasionally the vision of those putting the

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reality of climate change into

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limiting in the short term, in that they are able
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find various cases over the years

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in which the global temperature decreased, but are missing the long view, in which the natural variability gets much more diluted in the larger underlying trends, which, when viewed, raise far fewer doubts about climate change.